John Pollock
@karlcotton.bsky.social
Old lefty,Always learning from history and science. Traumatised adoptee and needs a haircut. In happy and long term relationship. No DMs please 🙏🏽 Free Palestine 🇵🇸 Living on Gumbaynggirr country. Protect Gaia Born 317.73 Now 421.55
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November 24, 2025 at 3:55 AM
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Barnaby Joyce’s enormous hat looks ridiculous and only confirms the rural adage, ″the wider the brim, the smaller the property″.
Donald Hirst, Armadale
The Age, letters
Donald Hirst, Armadale
The Age, letters
November 21, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Barnaby Joyce’s enormous hat looks ridiculous and only confirms the rural adage, ″the wider the brim, the smaller the property″.
Donald Hirst, Armadale
The Age, letters
Donald Hirst, Armadale
The Age, letters
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Sen. Elissa Slotkin tells NBC News that Capitol Police are now with her 24/7.
"We've had hundreds and hundreds, if not closer to 1000 threats come in to our phones, our emails" since Trump threatened her and other Democrats.
"We've had hundreds and hundreds, if not closer to 1000 threats come in to our phones, our emails" since Trump threatened her and other Democrats.
November 21, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Sen. Elissa Slotkin tells NBC News that Capitol Police are now with her 24/7.
"We've had hundreds and hundreds, if not closer to 1000 threats come in to our phones, our emails" since Trump threatened her and other Democrats.
"We've had hundreds and hundreds, if not closer to 1000 threats come in to our phones, our emails" since Trump threatened her and other Democrats.
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Republicans crafted an entire midterm strategy around making Mamdani the face of the Democratic Party and portraying him as the most dangerous political figure in American history. Called him a jihadist. Introduced a resolution in the House condemning socialism. All gone now.
November 22, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Republicans crafted an entire midterm strategy around making Mamdani the face of the Democratic Party and portraying him as the most dangerous political figure in American history. Called him a jihadist. Introduced a resolution in the House condemning socialism. All gone now.
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Mamdani just played Trump without sacrificing immigrants, Muslims, workers, or the LGBTQ.
Trump did his transactional charm offensive, Mamdani countered without compromising.
He won big and this is the man the Democratic Establishment still won't embrace.
What more do people need to see?
Trump did his transactional charm offensive, Mamdani countered without compromising.
He won big and this is the man the Democratic Establishment still won't embrace.
What more do people need to see?
November 21, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Mamdani just played Trump without sacrificing immigrants, Muslims, workers, or the LGBTQ.
Trump did his transactional charm offensive, Mamdani countered without compromising.
He won big and this is the man the Democratic Establishment still won't embrace.
What more do people need to see?
Trump did his transactional charm offensive, Mamdani countered without compromising.
He won big and this is the man the Democratic Establishment still won't embrace.
What more do people need to see?
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Robert Macklin: I would just cast a warning note: I have met a few shearer’s cooks in my time. They are never to be underestimated. #auspol #LiberalParty #SussanLey #Climate #Leadership
Never underestimate a shearer's cook
What comes next for Liberal leader Sussan Ley after the party walked away from committing to net zero?
johnmenadue.com
November 21, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Robert Macklin: I would just cast a warning note: I have met a few shearer’s cooks in my time. They are never to be underestimated. #auspol #LiberalParty #SussanLey #Climate #Leadership
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Don Jr and Eric Trump after seeing their father show more affection towards Zohran Mamdani and MbS.
November 21, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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Delete AUKUS! 🤬
November 21, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Delete AUKUS! 🤬
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"We’re not in Tel Aviv, lady."
An Israeli saw a Palestinian flag and started freaking out, fully convinced she had the same authority to terrorize strangers in NYC as she does in the West Bank to Palestinians.
An Israeli saw a Palestinian flag and started freaking out, fully convinced she had the same authority to terrorize strangers in NYC as she does in the West Bank to Palestinians.
November 21, 2025 at 8:42 PM
"We’re not in Tel Aviv, lady."
An Israeli saw a Palestinian flag and started freaking out, fully convinced she had the same authority to terrorize strangers in NYC as she does in the West Bank to Palestinians.
An Israeli saw a Palestinian flag and started freaking out, fully convinced she had the same authority to terrorize strangers in NYC as she does in the West Bank to Palestinians.
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Well done! Thank you.
I gave the 2025 Dymphna Clark Memorial Lecture recently. It was about how Australia is failing its public schools & the vulnerable kids they increasingly enrol. I pull no punches. It will be broadcast on ABC RN Big Ideas at 8pm 25/11 and midday 26/11. Or via the app www.abc.net.au/listen/liste...
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November 21, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Well done! Thank you.
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It occurs to me, and I'm sure I'm not the only one, that what is happening with the ultra rich oppressing and exploiting everyone else is a mirror of what humans have done to the earth.
November 20, 2025 at 6:16 AM
It occurs to me, and I'm sure I'm not the only one, that what is happening with the ultra rich oppressing and exploiting everyone else is a mirror of what humans have done to the earth.
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It’s fun to think about the surgeon who will botch your surgery 20 years from now and what he’s doing at this moment. He just ran all his homework through ChatGPT. He just read that article about vaccines and autism at the CDC website. He just watched an Instagram video about the moon landing hoax.
November 21, 2025 at 4:27 AM
It’s fun to think about the surgeon who will botch your surgery 20 years from now and what he’s doing at this moment. He just ran all his homework through ChatGPT. He just read that article about vaccines and autism at the CDC website. He just watched an Instagram video about the moon landing hoax.
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@albomp.bsky.social is trying to destroy us all, he needs to be ended.
@australianlabor.bsky.social have you forgotten who you are meant to be?
#auspol #duopoly #con #australia
@australianlabor.bsky.social have you forgotten who you are meant to be?
#auspol #duopoly #con #australia
The Albanese Government's proposed changes would weaken our environment laws and benefit destructive industries.
The Australia Institute is proud to be one of 100+ orgs calling on Parliament to reject the changes that would gut our environmental protections.
#auspol
The Australia Institute is proud to be one of 100+ orgs calling on Parliament to reject the changes that would gut our environmental protections.
#auspol
November 21, 2025 at 3:39 AM
@albomp.bsky.social is trying to destroy us all, he needs to be ended.
@australianlabor.bsky.social have you forgotten who you are meant to be?
#auspol #duopoly #con #australia
@australianlabor.bsky.social have you forgotten who you are meant to be?
#auspol #duopoly #con #australia
Climate emergency reality.
This reads like a cli-fi novel but it is lived experience.
#climateemergency
#extinctionrebellion
#auspol
This reads like a cli-fi novel but it is lived experience.
#climateemergency
#extinctionrebellion
#auspol
‘My husband and daughter went down to the garage in case it flooded. Then I heard a strange noise’ – This is climate breakdown
She was sure that there would be warnings if there was any danger. But then the floods came. This is Toñi García’s story
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Climate emergency reality.
This reads like a cli-fi novel but it is lived experience.
#climateemergency
#extinctionrebellion
#auspol
This reads like a cli-fi novel but it is lived experience.
#climateemergency
#extinctionrebellion
#auspol
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In the days of Joh Bjelke-Petersen, and Queensland's notoriously corrupt police Minister Peter Lewis, we knew that the whole system was rotten.
But police corruption and blatant racism are still there.
Instead of trying to fix the problem, current LNP Premier David Crisafulli is racist himself.
But police corruption and blatant racism are still there.
Instead of trying to fix the problem, current LNP Premier David Crisafulli is racist himself.
November 19, 2025 at 9:26 PM
In the days of Joh Bjelke-Petersen, and Queensland's notoriously corrupt police Minister Peter Lewis, we knew that the whole system was rotten.
But police corruption and blatant racism are still there.
Instead of trying to fix the problem, current LNP Premier David Crisafulli is racist himself.
But police corruption and blatant racism are still there.
Instead of trying to fix the problem, current LNP Premier David Crisafulli is racist himself.
Shameful
#auspol
#auspol
Kardell Lomas’s heartbreaking apology to police is a moment that should shame all Australians | Amy McQuire
The refusal to conduct an inquest reveals again what many black women know: it’s not a place for truth-telling but rather a mechanism to alibi the state and its failures
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Shameful
#auspol
#auspol
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I mean, look, I'm not a reporter, so who am I to talk?
But on a day where the president both just called a woman reporter "Piggy" and is celebrating someone who had people bone saw apart one of my colleagues, I might just be a little ready to defend my colleagues and profession.
But that's just me
But on a day where the president both just called a woman reporter "Piggy" and is celebrating someone who had people bone saw apart one of my colleagues, I might just be a little ready to defend my colleagues and profession.
But that's just me
November 18, 2025 at 5:26 PM
I mean, look, I'm not a reporter, so who am I to talk?
But on a day where the president both just called a woman reporter "Piggy" and is celebrating someone who had people bone saw apart one of my colleagues, I might just be a little ready to defend my colleagues and profession.
But that's just me
But on a day where the president both just called a woman reporter "Piggy" and is celebrating someone who had people bone saw apart one of my colleagues, I might just be a little ready to defend my colleagues and profession.
But that's just me
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Breaking: An Epstein survivor just silenced press conference attendees when she delivered the following remarks:
“Today we stand in a moment that will decide whether our government belongs to the American people, or to those who prey on them.”
“Today we stand in a moment that will decide whether our government belongs to the American people, or to those who prey on them.”
November 18, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Breaking: An Epstein survivor just silenced press conference attendees when she delivered the following remarks:
“Today we stand in a moment that will decide whether our government belongs to the American people, or to those who prey on them.”
“Today we stand in a moment that will decide whether our government belongs to the American people, or to those who prey on them.”
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Live shot: Mike Johnson on his way to deliver the Epstein bill to the Senate…
a man is laying on his stomach on the ground
ALT: a man is laying on his stomach on the ground
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November 18, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Live shot: Mike Johnson on his way to deliver the Epstein bill to the Senate…
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So many of the people who demand we look up to and respect them are so shit.
Like, really shit. Shit liars, shit at their jobs, shit at being basically decent humans.
The establishment has had it too good for too long, as a Tory might say.
#AusPol
Like, really shit. Shit liars, shit at their jobs, shit at being basically decent humans.
The establishment has had it too good for too long, as a Tory might say.
#AusPol
Defence inspector inadvertently omitted 10 consultations with NACC chief
A previous disclosure that the head of the federal corruption watchdog had been consulted 11 times has been corrected to 21 following questions from the ABC.
www.abc.net.au
November 18, 2025 at 8:20 AM
So many of the people who demand we look up to and respect them are so shit.
Like, really shit. Shit liars, shit at their jobs, shit at being basically decent humans.
The establishment has had it too good for too long, as a Tory might say.
#AusPol
Like, really shit. Shit liars, shit at their jobs, shit at being basically decent humans.
The establishment has had it too good for too long, as a Tory might say.
#AusPol
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#Morgan ALP 33 L-NP 27 Grn 12.5 ON 14 Ind/other 13.5
2PP 56.5 to ALP (-0.5) by respondent prefs
55 to ALP (-2) by last election
My conversion for these primaries 55.1 to ALP (-1.6)
n=5428, Oct 20 - Nov 16
www.roymorgan.com/findings/995...
2PP 56.5 to ALP (-0.5) by respondent prefs
55 to ALP (-2) by last election
My conversion for these primaries 55.1 to ALP (-1.6)
n=5428, Oct 20 - Nov 16
www.roymorgan.com/findings/995...
In November, support for One Nation increased to its highest since 1998; ALP maintains two-party preferred lead - Roy Morgan Research
www.roymorgan.com
November 18, 2025 at 8:51 AM
#Morgan ALP 33 L-NP 27 Grn 12.5 ON 14 Ind/other 13.5
2PP 56.5 to ALP (-0.5) by respondent prefs
55 to ALP (-2) by last election
My conversion for these primaries 55.1 to ALP (-1.6)
n=5428, Oct 20 - Nov 16
www.roymorgan.com/findings/995...
2PP 56.5 to ALP (-0.5) by respondent prefs
55 to ALP (-2) by last election
My conversion for these primaries 55.1 to ALP (-1.6)
n=5428, Oct 20 - Nov 16
www.roymorgan.com/findings/995...
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BREAKING: CBA boss uses parliamentary committee hearing to audition for post-bank role with Chaser, The Shovel or Betoota Advocate:
"I thought I'd demonstrate my satirical skills with an outrageous parody of a greedy banker", Mat Comyn said to a bewildered journalists. #inequality #auspol
"I thought I'd demonstrate my satirical skills with an outrageous parody of a greedy banker", Mat Comyn said to a bewildered journalists. #inequality #auspol
CBA boss says repaying ‘excessive fees’ to low-income customers could be seen as taking shareholder money
CBA boss says repaying ‘excessive fees’ to low-income customers could be seen as taking shareholder money
The Commonwealth Bank – which reported a record cash profit of $10.3bn in the most recent financial year – charged $270m in ‘excessive fees’ over five years
The head of Australia’s biggest and most profitable bank says reimbursing hundreds of millions of dollars in fees to its lower income customers would be an “appropriation” of shareholder money.
The Commonwealth Bank’s chief executive, Mat Comyn, mounted a fierce defence of charging fees according to its terms and conditions during a parliamentary committee hearing in Canberra on Tuesday morning, Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 10:04 AM
BREAKING: CBA boss uses parliamentary committee hearing to audition for post-bank role with Chaser, The Shovel or Betoota Advocate:
"I thought I'd demonstrate my satirical skills with an outrageous parody of a greedy banker", Mat Comyn said to a bewildered journalists. #inequality #auspol
"I thought I'd demonstrate my satirical skills with an outrageous parody of a greedy banker", Mat Comyn said to a bewildered journalists. #inequality #auspol
I don’t really care who hosts COP31 next year. We all just wants some results before it is too late.
#cop31
#extinction
#climateemergency
#auspol
#cop31
#extinction
#climateemergency
#auspol
November 18, 2025 at 10:59 PM
I don’t really care who hosts COP31 next year. We all just wants some results before it is too late.
#cop31
#extinction
#climateemergency
#auspol
#cop31
#extinction
#climateemergency
#auspol